Portland Ideation Summit: Housing for All

Hackathon For Social Good general page

The Portland Ideation Summit: Housing for All is an event sponsored by WebVisions, Saturday, January 27, 2018 from 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM (PST) in Portland, Oregon. 

Lead organizers by Brad Smith (WebVisions) and Sue Gemmell. 

 

 

 

 

 

Projects

Oregon Tenant Resource Center

Tim McCormick, YIMBYwiki.

Renters Emergency Response 

Marih Alyn-Claire, TenantsPricedOut.com 

Realtime Roadmap

Oz Ramos, Dan Linn, Eboni Brown

 

Details 

Tickets page: 

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-portland-ideation-summit-housing-for-all-tickets-41345316956

Location:

Pacific Northwest College of Art 
511 NW Broadway 
Mediatheque - Ground Floor 
Portland, Oregon 97209

 

Schedule 

Hackathon for Social Good page, with schedule: 
http://www.hackathonforsocialgood.org/schedule/

08:30amDoors open: Sign in / Coffee and Scones;
please bring your refillable water bottle.

09:00am Opening message; review the day’s process

09:15am Brief presentations about the homeless crisis

• Barbra Weber, Activist Street Roots, Hygiene Huddle
• Ibrahim Mubarak, Activist, Right 2 Survive
• Eliot Hinkle, Life Skills Coach – LGBTQ Specialist, New Avenues for Youth
• Savanah Walseth, Manager, Kenton Women’s Village
• Chris Aiosa, Executive Director, Do Good Multnomah
• Jason Renaud, Coordinator, Oregon Law & Mental Health Conference
• Mark Lakeman, Founder, Design Director, Communitecture and Advisory Council Member, Dignity Village

10:00am - Divide into groups; Ideation and strategy.

11:00am - Groups present their plans.

12:00pm - Lunch break – pizza and salad provided

12:45pm - Concept development.

03:45pm - Finalize and prepare for presentation.

04:00pm - Presentation of projects.

05:15pm - Feedback and next steps announced.

 

Attendee list 

(attendee-edited) 

See:  Portland Ideation Summit attendees 
 

Other online resources 

Facebook private group for event participants

https://www.facebook.com/groups/PdxIdeationHousing/.

Twitter: @PdxHomesForAll.

Hashtag:  #PdxHomesForAll  (if you put this on your tweets, Facebook posts, Instagrams, blog posts, etc, we + others will be find and link conversations more easily). 
Twitter search for #PdxHomesForAll. 

 

Overview

Resources page: http://www.hackathonforsocialgood.org/resources-homelessness-in-the-portland-area/.

Gather with regional experts, advocates, activists and people who have experienced homelessness to imagine and pursue new ways to house the people who live on Portland’s streets. 

The Ideation Summit will accommodate ~ 60 participants, who will form groups to deliver innovative ideas that can be pursued at future events. Portland is known for its hackathon culture -- so let's apply the Hackathon for Social Good approach to the homeless crisis. 
-- Hackathon: a day of focused, determined, collaborative work
-- For social good: solving social issues by local communities, for local communities. 

The Summit will be a collaborative forum to develop innovative ideas and plans that take on the varied facets of Portland's homelessness crisis. The event begins with short presentations by representatives of and advocates for the homeless community, then participants will break up into teams for three hours to collaborate, innovate and propose a solution to present at the end of the day. 

In addition to ideas for future consideration, the day’s output will include a visual display for public view at PNCA through Feb 15.

 

Background Reading 

The Guardian - "Outside in America Series: On the frontline of the homelessness crisis in the western US".

StreetRoots - news from the street

Portland's State of Emergency on Housing and Homelessness (Homelessness Toolkit)

A Home for Everyone - A good place to start is to have a look at city and county information. In 2013, the city, county, and Home Forward convened a special committee of diverse stakeholders and created "A Home for Everyone: A United Community Plan to End Homelessness in Multnomah County".

"Point in time report: 22 Feb 2017". The point-in-time count of homelessness in Portland and Multnomah County provides a bi-annual snapshot of the individuals and families experiencing homelessness on a given night in our community.

Housing First - National Alliance to End Homelessness - Housing First is a homeless assistance approach that prioritizes providing permanent housing to people experiencing homelessness, thus ending their homelessness and serving as a platform from which they can pursue personal goals and improve their quality of life.

Kenton Women's Village - a creative, collaborative year-long pilot project, offering a new potential approach for addressing houselessness at a small scale, which could be adapted and implemented in communities across the country.

Homelessness in the Portland Area - resources

see main article:  Homelessness in the Portland Area